DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36475

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36475 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.25.0 (and before 2.16.9 LTS and before 2.7.18 LTS). The calculations performed by mbedtls_mpi_exp_mod are not limited; thus, supplying overly large parameters could lead to denial of service when generating Diffie-Hellman key pairs.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1

7.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:11	mbedtls	0, 0, 0
Debian:12	mbedtls	0, 0, 0
Debian:14	mbedtls	0, 0, 0
Debian:13	mbedtls	0, 0, 0

Timeline

Aug 23, 2021 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-36475 advisory

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